Last.fm 2017 Listening Trends

This year my music listening is under-counted because of a few factors. 1) Spotify scrobbling stopped working at work, 2) I listened to a lot of bandcamp at work (not scrobbled), and 3) for K-Pop I mostly just watch it on Youtube (not scrobbled). That said, I have been listening to music slightly more often. I’ve spent the last couple months listening to music that I’ve never listened to on my computer (as far as Amarok knows), so while that’s contributed to scrobbles, it’s going to mean that the scrobbles are going to be long-tail, ie they won’t make dents in the counts of top artists, songs, etc.

Artists

Interestingly, only The Beatles, Ramin Djawadi, and Chance were on this list last year.

1. The PDX Broadsides (350 listens) – When The Doubleclicks mentioned The PDX Broadsides in one of their Kickstarter updates, I checked them out on bandcamp. A few days later I ended up joining their Kickstarter for Trust Issues and buying their entire discography. They’re a fun little band that mostly tackle geek genres.
2. Jonathan Coulton (348 listens) – JoCo had a new album this year. I got addicted to All this Time and subsequently bought the album and accompanying graphic novel.
3. The Doubleclicks (186 listens) – I Kickstarted their latest album, Love Problems. Almost all the scrobbles come from listening to this one album.
4. Cast – Elena of Avalor (137 listens) – Scarlett wanted the soundtrack from Elena of Avalor. We listened to it a lot while driving around.
5. The Beatles (123 listens) – They’re always there.
6. Celia Cruz (97 listens) – I always love listening to Celia. AZUCAR!
7. Beny Moré (87 listens) – I rediscovered Beny Moré via Spotify, I started listening to him even more.
8. Marian Call (80 listens) – While on the bandcamp page for The PDX Broadsides, I was recommended Marian Call. Good call (pun not intended) by Bandcamp. I loved her muisc and bought many of her albums.
9. Mark Mancina (77 listens) – From the Moana soundtrack.
10. Willy Chirino (77 listens) – Reminds me of my childhood.
11. Anberlin (66 listens) – After remembering that they’d disbanded, got nostalgic for the music, especially the earlier stuff.
12. I Fight Dragons (66 listens) – I’d stopped listening for a bit and then the announced they were working on a new album and are releasing demo tracks via Patreon. Started listening to both the demo tracks and old stuff.
13. Anchor & Braille (58 listens) – On reddit, someone mentioned this group had some of the members from Anberlin, so I checked out Songs for the Late Night Drive Home. It was pretty good although the songs are a bit samey.
14. Lana Del Rey (57 listens) – Mostly from listening to her song from The Great Gatsby soundtrack.
15. Sleigh Bells (55 listens) – From listening to their latest album on Spotify as well as some of their older stuff.
16. Valerie June (55 listens) – just from listening to Pushin’ Against A Stone on Spotify.
17. Chance the Rapper (53 listens) – I finally started appreciating Coloring Book.
18. Ramin Djawadi (53 listens) – Westworld Soundtrack.
19. OK Go (50 listens) – I got back into their music videos which got me back into listening to their music.
20. Thelonious Monk (50 listens) – as always I love his take on Duke Ellington.

All-Time Artists

It’s a testament to how entrenched these are that only Anberlin, The Beatles, Jonathan Coulton, and I Fight Dragons had enough listens to make the top artists and yet many of the artists that have been top artists for years now remain. JoCo has the possibility of moving up 1-2 slots in 2018 and if I really like the new IFD album, they could finally overtake Gnarls Barkley.